Reassentamento rural coletivo km-27 (RRC-27), Vitória do Xingu/PA, by riverside families impacted by UHE-Belo Monte, Brazil

Abstract

Brazil has its economic growth based on the exploitation of natural resources, disposed mainly in the Amazon region, through the implementation of large-scale projects, which provide transformations in the spatial dynamics of the local subject. For example, there is the construction of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Power Plant (UHE-Belo Monte) in Volta Grande do Xingu - PA, because its buildings generated the compulsory displacement of several families living in the areas of influence of the enterprise, causing deformations in traditional ways of life of the riverine subjects, misrepresenting their origins and, obligatorily, transforming them into individuals of the city or family farmers. Given these transformations in the region, the objective of this research was to understand the production of the Reassentamento Rural Coletivo ​km -27, located in Vitória do Xingu - PA (RRC-27), which aims to provide equivalent or better conditions than those that the families had before the implementation of the plant. For the primary data survey, semi-structured interviews were conducted with the resettled families in 2017, 2018 and 2019, allowing the apprehension of the reality of the relocated families, and besides the field research, the official documents referring to the object of study. It has been found that compulsorily displaced families seek to establish new production modes, new strategies and new spatial dynamics in the new space, trying to adapt to what external agents impose as a reproduction aid for their new ways of life.